The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Hitch-Hiker (1960)

Inger Stevens: Nan Adams

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• Nan Adams : [Nan just found out from a Mrs. Whitney on the phone that her mother is in the hospital, having suffered a nervous breakdown after finding out that Nan died in Pennsylvania six days ago when the car she drove blew a tire and overturned] 

  [voiceover] 

  Nan Adams : Very odd. The fear has left me now. I'm numb. I have no feeling. It's as if someone had pulled out some kind of a plug in me, and everything, emotion, feeling, fear has drained out. And now I'm a cold shell. I'm conscious of things around me now. The vast night of Arizona. The stars that look down from the darkness. Ahead of me, stretch of a thousand miles of empty Mesa. Mountains, prairies, desert. Somewhere among them, he's waiting for me. Somewhere I'll find out who he is. I'll find out. I'll find out what he wants. But just know, for the first time, looking out at the night, I think I know. I think I know.

  [returns to her car and looks in the vanity mirror on the visor. Instead of her reflection, she sees the hitchhiker in her place] 

  The Hitch-Hiker : I believe you're going... my way?

• Nan Adams : I'm conscious of things around me now -- the vast night of Arizona; the stars that look down from the darkness; ahead of me stretches a thousand miles of empty mesa - mountains, prairies, desert. Somewhere among them - he's waiting for me.